Nifty: Logging Nightmare

homsi · October 2, 2013, 5:33pm

I started a topic back in the day where I was trying to disable the nifty logging from my application: http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/forum/topic/how-to-disable-nifty-logging/

this worked great, except that I just added a new MENU to my application and the nightmare is back. I cannot seem to get rid of the VERY MANY Nifty logs that are flooding my console. It has to do with showing/hiding the popup menu screen that I created.

The way the popup menu that’s causing this works, is that whenever the mouse cursor is at the upper left of the screen, the update loop calls a method showGUI() that shows the GUI to the screen. This works fine except that I get these logs everytime the mouse cursor is hovering on that upper left area.

[java]INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
Oct 2, 2013 1:30:59 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform
INFO: onEndScreen has ended
[/java]

is there any additional line related to screens (mainly EndScreen) that I can add here to turn these logs off?
[java]
// set logger settings
getLoggerAndMakeHardLink(“com.jme3”).setLevel(Level.OFF);
getLoggerAndMakeHardLink(“de.lessvoid.nifty”).setLevel(Level.OFF);
getLoggerAndMakeHardLink(“NiftyInputEventHandlingLog”).setLevel(Level.OFF);
[/java]

can anyone help with this?

Vektor · October 2, 2013, 6:42pm

The only solution I’ve found is to just disable (or set to Warning / Severe) all logging in the main method:

    Logger.getLogger("").setLevel(Level.OFF);

Does this not work for you or this not an suitable solution? I use my own custom logger (So I can color encode the console text) so it’s not a big problem for me to just disable all logging and it’s the only way I’ve found to get rid of the nifty console spam.

I would agree though that Nifty logging is just insane. It has caused me a lot of problems in the past by flooding my console with text so fast that I can’t even read what it says.

homsi · October 2, 2013, 7:05pm

No that didn’t work for me… already tried it

jmaasing · October 2, 2013, 7:41pm

Maybe this will help.
http://nifty-gui.lessvoid.com/archives/532

homsi · October 2, 2013, 7:47pm

already read it… if you see one comment at the bottom of the thread

But I always get when switching screens: Apr 30, 2013 6:31:08 PM de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen$EndScreenEndNotify perform INFO: onEndScreen has ended

I have the same issue. I am still getting the onEndScreen issue.

@void256??

Vektor · October 2, 2013, 8:07pm

I haven’t seen any logging from Nifty after disabling all logging. Maybe it has something to do with using a pop-up?

Are you absolutely sure you are using an empty string when you call getLogger("")? When I tried getting the logger from “de.lessvoid” it didn’t work for me and the logging continued. When I used getLogger with an empty string it worked.

I only ask because in your original post you have:
getLoggerAndMakeHardLink(“de.lessvoid.nifty”).setLevel(Level.OFF);
getLoggerAndMakeHardLink(“NiftyInputEventHandlingLog”).setLevel(Level.OFF);

Maybe try:
getLoggerAndMakeHardLink("").setLevel(Level.OFF);
instead?

homsi · October 2, 2013, 8:10pm

ha!!! no I did it by adding a string in it. So now you’re right it works… can you explain what this does exactly? is it disabling ANY log from that class? whether nifty or not

Empire_Phoenix · October 2, 2013, 9:48pm

Well with using “” you are disableing ANY logger using java.util.logging at all, I strongly recommend to set it to warning or error instead.

homsi · October 3, 2013, 1:40pm

noted. Thx guys